The Daily WTF

In a global health crisis, like say, a pandemic, accurate and complete data about its spread is a “must have”. Which is why, in the UK, there’s a great deal of head-scratching over how the government “lost” thousands of cases.

Oops.

Normally, we don’t dig too deeply into current events on this site, but the circumstances here are too “WTF” to allow them to pass without comment.

From the BBC, we know that this system was used to notify individuals if they have tested positive for COVID-19, and notify their close contacts that they have been exposed. That last bit is important. Disease spread can quickly turn exponential, and even though COVID-19 has a low probability of causing fatalities, the law of large numbers means that a lot of people will die anyway on that exponential curve. If you can track exposure, get exposed individuals tested and isolated before

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